A Cantata Singers Christmas

Cantata Singers celebrates the holiday season with two opportunities to hear “A Cantata Singers Christmas”— on Friday, December 7th, and on Sunday, December 9th, both at First Lutheran Church in the heart of Boston’s Back Bay. 

Cantata Singers’ Music Director David Hoose leads a program of radiant Baroque and Renaissance seasonal music for chamber chorus and ensemble. The program begins with Slovene composer Jacobus Gallus Handl’s (1550-1591) “Mirabile mysterium,” which features a style popular in Renaissance Venice of spatially separate choirs singing in alternation. Following is German composer Heinrich Schütz’s (1585-1672) exquisite “Dulcissime et benignissime Christe,” representing some of the best counterpoint written in the seventeenth century. Giovanni Gabrieli’s (1554-1612) “O magnum mysterium” also exhibits the Venetian polychoral style of two alternating and distinct choirs made up of four voices each.

About Cantata Singers 

A singular desire to bring to Boston’s listeners music that isn’t being heard anywhere else has inspired Cantata Singers’ programming for 55 years.

Many of Boston’s most talented musicians perform regularly with Cantata Singers. The chorus is made up of singers who have careers as musicians, educators, doctors, and architects. Many of these members appear as soloists with Cantata Singers, as well as with other highly respected organizations; some conduct other choruses and orchestras in the area. Although many of our musicians perform actively as solo singers, they choose to sing with Cantata Singers because of the reward they find in performing music of the choral canon at the highest possible level.

Cantata Singers has always focused on the music—be it by Bach, Verdi, Harbison, or Pärt—and its audiences do, too. Our audiences return year after year to hear fresh visions of iconic music, or an intriguing unfamiliar work that is—in fact—quite approachable. Each Cantata Singers concert is often surprising, sometimes challenging, always beautiful, and ultimately inspiring.

WHEN: 

December 7, Friday, 8:00 pm

December 9, Sunday, 3:00 pm

WHERE: 

First Lutheran Church, Boston, 299 Berkeley Street, Boston

TICKETS: 

$25 – $75

purchase by calling 617-868-5885 or visiting the Cantata Singers website

Learn more about the Cantata Singers chamber and concert series here

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